The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-04
For the HERALD AND MEMS.
Thoughts for the Hour.

Il were well that We rs a people
speedily abandon our idols, whatever
they might be. and our tacit or half
hearted Acknowledgements of the power,
provideEces and protection Of Jehovah,
and come to knowledge OF the truth,
and its application in the Law OF Right
eouSness to our civil, legal, political and
business codes. to our financial schemes
and ourrcliyious duties; recognizing that
the PrCvidenceS Of God are universal and
general, very special and particular, and
withal, pe1miSsire that He not only
projects, yibrates and sustaius the ma
ies;ic planets upon their wonderful
waves OF electrical light, bringing them
to their appointed aphelion, and rocking
this "earthly house OF our tabernacle"
as though it were L cradle upon the
deep. but makelh "the bud OF the tell
der herb to appear, and perpetually
preserveth the atoms in their variety,
combination and affinity. lie is the
creator OF worlds and prescrvcr OF men.
Let us read the record of the soul and
60 into the depths OF our hearts, minds
and conScences, and see if we are not
''cursed with a curse, even this whole
nation" Let US examine and 60 to the
Law and the Testimony. 1.-The days
are full of evil and the night is growing
late" We must awake.
There is a volume OF private grief and
public calamity upon the land, yea,
verify, i'll the world, that is perfectly ap-
palliDg, and day by day links are being
added to the chain of causation now af-
fectiug the earth. The very continent
it would seem is growing incontinent Of
evil, and the p rmissive providences and
judgments of the Almighty are sweep
ing the earth with the very impulsions
of Deity to arrest lis in our downward
course.
We are not Il pesslmist, but lie is a
dull student, certainly, who does not
discern the omens in the sky, the air,
the earth, and beneath its founda-
tions.
1.-The rain descended, the floods came,
the wind blew" and 1.-The earth trem-
bled," and where found they safety but
in the Everlasting Ark Of the Cove
naut?
Some there were who sought shelter
in cyclone pits, but the undulating
waves of the earth and the upheaval
thereof dispelled their illusive hopes.
Like Robert Gui:card, of Calabria, the
Norman Duke who invaded. Greece in
the earlier crusade, and burned his ships
on the shores of Illyria that all hope of
return might be taken from his soldiers,
let US 90 forward with concentrated
mind in crusade for the restoration of
the primal paths OF moral heroism, "of
1IeCuOLu dlIU VI ludllIOOu, VI 4dIGA tlllO
holiness"-that freedom which shall lib
crate us from the chains and slavery of
the Evil One, and that manhood which
shall
'Tell OF all things gentle,
The human pulse to start;
Breathe OF all things noble,
That spring from human heart"
If we ''regard not iniquity in our
heart" He will rebuke the destroyer for
our sake; lie will hide the wind and
the water-tloodS in the hollow Of His
hand; He will keep back the lightning's
fearful flash and the cyclones fateful
breath. and He will silence the omnipc-
tent forces that sweep through the cay
erns of the deep, for He alone can heal
the breaches, anG underneath are the
Everlasting Arms"
PETER THE HEKMIT.